The Nashville Symphony arrives with Nashville-based electric violinist Tracy Silverman, the featured soloist on a new piece written for him by Terry Riley. In addition, the orchestra will perform the New York premiere of Charles Ives's monumental Universe Symphony (Austin realization). Elliott Forrest and David Garland host the program.

First of all: Nashville Symphony and WQXR needs to stop listing the Ives piece as a NY premiere, which it is not -- the communications director said it was an oversight that they did not make it clear that it was the Austin rather than the far superior realization done by Johnny Reinhard and the American Festival of Microtonal music that premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 1996 -- which had no click tracks in it and was performed by 2 conductors -- this is not the space for a long discussion on this but credit should be given where credit is due, otherwise it's just musical politics...

First of all: Nashville Symphony and WQXR needs to stop listing the Ives piece as a NY premiere, which it is not -- the communications director said it was an oversight that they did not make it clear that it was the Austin rather than the far superior realization done by Johnny Reinhard and the American Festival of Microtonal music that premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 1996 -- which had no click tracks in it and was performed by 2 conductors -- this is not the space for a long discussion on this but credit should be given where credit is due, otherwise it's just musical politics...

Heard this concert Thursday in Houston...Mikhail Svetlov pours himself into the characters he portrays. This short piece is an incredible eye opener ofStalin's threats to Russian composers. Bravo Shostakovich for lampooning the bureaucrats and Bravo Hans Graf for bringing it to Houston.